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he book Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality web applications with AJAX. It systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated
or those following the saga of my household’s two cross-country moves in nine months back in 2005, I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that the current consensus is that
just got back from San Diego Comic-Con 2007 in San Diego, California. I love Comic Con for a number of reasons. First, I can go with friends and “geek” for
arl Franklin: All right Richard, let’s bring on Frank Savage. Frank started in the game development business at Origin Systems in 1991. His first game was Strike Commander, then he
‘ve been going to major developer conferences for 10 years now. My first was the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in San Diego back in September 1997. Whether I’m speaking
f you haven’t yet upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5, this article will give you a serious reason to do so: PHP5 now supports reflection through the Reflection API, which you
he book, Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts, provides pragmatic and results-focused approaches that help enterprise Java developers build more robust code for today’s mission-critical environments. Enterprise Java
n Part 1 of this series, I showed you an elementary vector implementation for Brew as a stand-alone component you can use in your applications. This time, I give you
t’s easy to list applications where computers leave humans in the dust. When it comes to complex mathematics, repetitive calculations, and tedious searches, even the most astute mathematician can’t beat
ith the recent introduction of the Windows Mobile 6 platforms, we are now beginning to see a proliferation of new devices supporting the Windows Mobile 6 Standard (aka Smartphone). Because
When you run some commands in the Run Menu, it closes before you can view the output. Here’s a small trick to make the window stay open after the execution
Hibernate’s facility allows you to map many-to-many associations and collections of values to a single table with a surrogate key. The following code shows an example of mapping: <idbag name=”cars”
.NET allows you to call a JavaScript function from the server-side code. For example, suppose you want to to display a message box to the user. This can be accomplished
he concept of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) has been around for years, but has recently experienced an uptick in popularity. This is due in large part to the success of Ruby
he book, Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications, resulted from the authors’ inspiration to address the dearth of information available for more advanced topics in AJAX development.
he Spring framework and its Plain Old Java Object (POJO)-based programming model enable you to inject collaborative objects into your classes via setter methods instead of looking them up inline
omplex numbers are widely-used in electrical engineering, simulations, and scientific applications. And yet, many software engineers who have to use complex arithmetic insist on reinventing the wheel when there’s no
o you like to relax in the morning over a cup of coffee and the “zoopepe”? Do you like to put “kapatz” on your “hogatz”? These are obviously meaningless terms
f you’re a developer, chances are that you’re no stranger to mailing lists. A mailing list contains a group of users who are subscribed to receive regular emails pertaining to
Suppose you want to set up a virtual directory on a machine that has both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 installed. In this case, the machine will use the ASP.NET
This simple tip shows you how to stop and start the Tomcat server directly from an Ant script on the Windows system. Here are the two targets to do so:
Consider the following declarations: int * const bla;int const * bla; const int * const bla; As you can see, it can sometimes be hard to remember whether it’s the
When migrating SQL code (stored procedures, triggers, etc.) to newer versions, it’s not uncommon to have to rewrite your entire back-end code. However, a simpler solution is to check the
he first part of this article provided a detailed description of a StateSelector control that lets users select a state from a map. The map itself is a control property
ith the proliferation of mobile devices such as BlackBerrys, Tablet PCs, and regular laptops, some critical applications need to store a cache of their data locally at all times. Whether
QL has been evolving?slowly?for over three decades, (see Wikipedia for a historical summary). While SQL in the hands of an expert is quite powerful, it’s sometimes cumbersome compared to other
he dilemma is common. Your web site starts out by design with a few pages of content—a front page, a products page, perhaps something about the company or person putting
ecently, I was consulting on a Windows Mobile project where the client asked if it is possible to send images using SMS messaging. After searching high and low for a
oogle Earth (GE) provides a powerful 3D environment that you can use to provision your application with rich interactive 3D features. You can render points, lines or areas located at
Many of us write common graphics code in the Form’s Paint event because the Paint Event handler provides access to the Graphics object, and also because this handler is fired
